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Intense, scary, personal, sensual, funny, obscene, off-putting, the work of Francisco Toledo conjures all of those, and often at the same time, as the observer goes from one moment to the next, back and forth, again and again experiencing them. My attraction was instantaneous when I took a book of Toledo’s work off a shelf in a friend’s apartment in Paris in the late 1980’s and looked at them. I like these woodcuts a lot; they are from a later book. Some are very light and some are very dark. But there they are.
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Burro conejo, 1970, Xilografia, coloreado a mano, z8 x 65 cm
Burro rabbit
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Dos largatos, 1999, Xilografia, color, 25 x 20 cm
Two lizards
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El dueno del caballo, 1974, Camafeo, xilografia, aguafuerte, agautinta y ruleta, 37 x 47.5 cm
The dream of a horse
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El zapato 111, 1969, Xilografia, 71 x 51 cm
The shoe, III
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Grazas, 1983, Aguafuerte, xilografia, punta seca, 37 x 33 cm
Squawks
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La muchacha y el leon, 83, Xilografia y aguafuerte, color, 30 x 25.5 cm
The girl and the lion
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Los peces, 1969, Xilografia, prueba de artista, 60 x 73 cm
Fish
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Mujer descabezada, 1970, Xilografia, coloreada a mano, 64 x 38
Beheaded Woman
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Pelea de grillos. 1990, xilografia, color, 32.6 x 40 cm
Fight of the crickets
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Cabesas de elefante, 1983, Xilografia, color, 37 x 36.8 cm
Heads of an elephant
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Chancha con cadena, 1983, Xilografia, 26.5 x 13.5 cm
Sow with chain
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Conejo con cucharones, 1983, Punta seca, xilografia y ruleta, 20 x 31.5 cm
Rabbit with spoons
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La hermana de Juárez cose ajeno, 1984, Xilografia, aguafuerte, aguatinta, fotograbado, y color, 34.8 x 27.3 cm
Juárez’s sister sews in the distance
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